6 events with verified sources in Basilicata, in calendar order.
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📅 Every year, on the second Saturday of October
On the second Saturday of October Craco celebrates Saint Nicholas. It is the feast of a town whose old centre has stood empty since the 1960s, emptied by a landslide and left a ghost town.
📅 Christmas season, approximate dates
The nativity staged in the most evocative natural crib on Earth.
📅 Every year, on 9 February
On 9 February Melfi celebrates Saint Alexander of Bergamo, patron of a Lucanian town that carries the name of a northern saint.
📅 Every year, from the Saturday before the first Sunday of May to the second Sunday
Eight days of feasting in May, with the statue carried in procession four times. What is remembered is not the saint's martyrdom but the day his relics reached Maratea.
📅 Every year, on 2 July
On 2 July Matera builds a triumphal papier-mâché float and, at the end of the day, lets the crowd tear it apart. It has done so since 1389, and the following year the float is built again from scratch.
📅 Every year, on 18 and 19 August
On 18 and 19 August Castelmezzano celebrates Saint Roch, in a village of eight hundred people wedged among the spires of the Lucanian Dolomites.
